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10 000 Korona
| Issuer | Magyar Pénzügyminisztérium (Hungarian Ministry of Finance) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 000 Crowns (Koronás) (10 000) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central rectangular panel bearing the denomination in five languages arranged symmetrically: ZECE MII COROANE (Romanian, upper left), ZEHNTAUSEND KRONEN (German, upper right), DESAŤ TISÍC KORÚN (Slovak, lower left), ДЕСЕТ ХИЉАДА КРУНА (Serbian, lower right), and ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ КОРОНЪ (Russian, bottom centre), all surrounding a bold central cartouche reading TIZEZER KORONA. The entire composition is enclosed within dense, symmetrical guilloche framework with the numeral 10000 repeated in each corner. |
| Reverse lettering | TIZEZER KORONA / ZECE MII COROANE. / ZEHNTAUSEND KRONEN. / DESAŤ TISÍC KORÚN. / ДЕСЕТ ХИЉАДА КРУНА. / ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ КОРОНЪ. |
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Hungary's postwar inflation in the early 1920s was among the worst in Central Europe, and this 10,000 Korona was very much a product of that spiral — a denomination that would have been unthinkable before 1918 now barely covered ordinary transactions. The Ministry of Finance rather than the central bank issued it directly, a structural detail that reflects just how thoroughly the Austro-Hungarian banking apparatus had collapsed after the armistice.
Printing was contracted to Orell Füssli in Zurich because Hungary's domestic printing capacity was inadequate to meet the volume demanded by runaway inflation. The korona was eventually replaced by the pengő in 1927, at a rate of 12,500 korona to one pengő.